Frequently Quotes
821 quotes by 642 authors
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to…
— Granville Penn
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All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these…
— John Henry Comstock
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It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or…
— Agostino Scilla
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[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently…
— Hudson Gurney
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Whatever we have done in withdrawing from full consciousness of the One Mind, we are doing now. Whatever we are doing will always be within…
— Thaddeus Golas
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It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven…
— Philip Neri
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Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood.…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it…
— Truman Capote
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People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps…
— Tim Ferriss
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in…
— Susanna Tamaro
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Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that…
— Fran Lebowitz
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A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
— John D. Voelker
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Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor…
— Lord Acton
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I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.
— Vasily Smyslov
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Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and…
— Robert Adams
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
— James Madison
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and…
— George Ryan
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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations…
— Bruce Barton
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